Prof. Shai Cohen - Music Art Technology

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Technology and creativity

Technology and creativity

SPECIAL PROJECTS IN SOUND PROGRAMMING AND AUDIO DESIGN:

  • Sound Director & Computer Design of the Israeli opera production: "Les Rois Mages", Musical Theatre by Fabián Panisello for mezzo-soprano, ensemble, and multimedia. 26/3/22 Tel Aviv Museum of Art.
  • Sound Director & Computer Design of Pierre Boulez Anthèmes 2. Contemporary Encounters Meitar Ensemble. International new music festival, Tel Aviv. 31.12.2022 – 7.1.2023
  • Sound Director and Computer Design of "Many Waters" for the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra (by Betty Olivero). Tel-Aviv, Jerusalem, Haifa, Dortmund, and Berlin. September 2023.
  • Sound Director and Computer Design of Betty Olivero – ”Over the face of the waters” for piano and electronics. Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago. CHIMEFest (Chicago Integrated Media Experimental Studio Fest). Logan Hall on April 12, 2024. 

SOUND INSTALLATION AND FILM:

  • Real-Time Music Composition with color and movement tracking (2008) a project in memory of Yossi Banai, premiered at Bar-Ilan University, Duration: "Free”
  • Music for documentary films wins Haifa International Film Festival (2005) with the support of The Second Authority for Television and Radio. 

Refereed articles:

  1. Azariahu, L., Broza, O., Cohen, S., Hershkovitz, S., Adi-Japha, E. Development of Creative Thinking via Fractions and Rhythm Corresponding Author. Thinking Skills and Creativity. March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tsc.2024.101514.
  2. Cohen, S., Azaryahu L., Broza O., Hershkovitz, S., Adi-Japha, E. The Contribution of Technology to Understanding Shared Phenomena in Math and Music. International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, Volume 30, Number 4, December 2023, pp. 265-270(6). https://doi.org/10.1564/tme_v30.4.9
  3. Gordon I., Gilboa E., Gilboa A., Cohen S., Kivity Y. Catching That Playful Beat: Social Anxiety and Synchronous Group Functioning. J Nonverbal Behav (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10919-023-00436-7
  4. David M. Greenberg, Nir Milstein, Avi Gilboa, Shai Cohen, Nir Haimovich, Shahar Siegman, Shay Pinhasi, Ilanit Gordon  (2023). Improvised herding: Mapping biobehavioral mechanisms that underlie group efficacy during improvised social interaction http://doi.org/10.1111/psyp.14307
  5. Azariahu, L., Broza, O., Cohen, S., Hershkovitz, S., Adi-Japha, E. Development of Creative Thinking Patterns via Math and Music. (2022). Thinking Skills and Creativity, 2022-11 | Journal article DOI: 10.1016/j.tsc.2022.101196
  6. Cohen, S., (2022). Entanglement for conductor and interactive 2D point map. Peimot, Issue No. 5 Journal of Music and Culture, "RESLING" an Israeli academic publishing house. 
  7. Ornoy E., Cohen S., (2021). Tool for a Real-Time Automatic Assessment of Vocal Proficiency. The Journal of Music, Technology & Education (JMTE). https://doi.org/10.1386/jmte_00034_1
  8. Ornoy E., Cohen S., (2021). Back to the present: Assimilation of late 19th century performance features among currently active violinists. Journal of New Music Research. https://doi.org/10.1080/09298215.2022.2029496
  9. Ornoy E., Cohen S., (2021). The Effect of Mindfulness Meditation on the Vocal Proficiencies of Music Education Students. Psychology of Music. https://doi.org/10.1177/03057356211062262
  10. Gordon I., Gilboa, A., Cohen, S., Kleinfeld T., (2020). The relationship between physiological synchrony and motion energy synchrony during a joint group drumming task. Physiology & Behavior Volume 224, 1 October 2020, 113074. DOI:10.1016/j.physbeh.2020.113074
  11. Gordon I., Gilboa, A., Cohen, S., Milstein N., Haimovich N., Pinhasi S., Siegman S. (2020). Physiological and Behavioral Synchrony Predict Group Cohesion and Performance. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-65670-1
  12. Sandak B., Cohen S., Gilboa A., Harel D. (2019). Computational elucidation of the effects induced by music making. PLoS ONE 14(3): e0213247. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0213247
  13. Ornoy E., Cohen S., (2018). Analysis of contemporary violin recordings of 19th century repertoire: identifying trends and impacts. Frontiers in Psychology. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.02233
  14. Cohen, S., (2017). Musical creativity resulting from dyslexia in reading score. Between the words, art therapy, Kibbutzim College of Education. Issue 14, 2018.
  15. Cohen, S., (2017). Music Composition and real-time improvisation with mobile technology. Proceedings of the 13th Chais Conference for the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies: Learning in the Technological Era, Raanana: The Open University of Israel, pp. 214-219.

Video score: http://www.youtube.com/playlist?p=PLFAB29E64A99E99EB

 

TALKS AND INVITED LECTURES:

  1. Cohen S. (2025). “Around the Point”, Lecture-performance. "Diving Between Disciplines": Interdisciplinarity in Music Technology. Bar-Ilan, Israel.
  2. Cohen S. (2024). An excess of gestures and material or a real compositional dialectic? Using orchestration based on instrumental saturation as an ideology. The Israeli Musicological Society conference, Bar-Ilan University. July 21th 2024.
  3. Cohen S. (2024). Mindfulness meditation: issues in automated analysis and evaluation of digital audio data. The second seminar in the series "Infrastructure in the Humanities" | Visual and audio databases. The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jerusalem. June 17th 2024.
  4. Cohen S., Olivero B, Yitzhaki O. (2024). 'Sound design pipeline', exploring Betty Olivero music. The Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago, USA.  Chicago Integrated Media Experimental Studio Fest, Composition seminar, April 9th 2024.
  5. Cohen S., Koren L, Ivancovsky T. (2023). 'Improbable Melodies', exploring the Voices of Rock Hyraxes in Musical Improvisation. Leonardo/The International Society for the Arts, Sciences and Technology (Leonardo/ISAST). Tel Aviv, Israel. 16 Nov. 2023.
  6. Ornoy E., Cohen S. (2023). The International Symposium on Performance Science. "The effect of mindfulness meditation on the vocal proficiency of music education students". Warsaw, Poland 17 - 20 August 2023.
  7. Ornoy E., Cohen S. (2023). International Conference: Perspectives of Performing Arts Pedagogy. "Assimilation of late 19th-century performance features among currently active violinists". The Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, Israel. June, 14-16, 2023.
  8. Cohen S., Azaryahu L., Hershkovitz S., Borza O., Adi-Japha E. (2022). Music & Math - Computerized Tests for Collecting Multidisciplinary Data. CADGME (Conference on Digital Tools in Mathematics Education) Jerusalem College of Technology. Israel, 12, September 2022.
  9. Azaryahu L., Cohen S., Hershkovitz S., Borza O., Adi-Japha E. "Musimath": Creative thinking via Music, Math, and Technology in elementary school. Mathematics and its Connection to the Arts and Science International Symposium (MACAS 2022). Université de Moncton, Campus de Shippagan in Shippagan, New Brunswick on August 16 – 19, 2022.
  10. Azaryahu L., Cohen S., Hershkovitz S., Borza O., Adi-Japha E. (2022). The Wonders of STEM and STEAM Education: What, Why, and How? "MusiMath" - Promoting Creative Thinking via Music, Math and Technology". International Online Conference. July 5-6, 2022.
  11. Cohen S. (2022). "Voices from the Killing Jar" by Kate Soper: a study in contemporary composition. ContComp Conference on Contemporary Composition, the Dr. Hecht Center for the Arts, University of Haifa, Israel. Sunday, May 22, 2022.
  12. Cohen, S. (2022). "Who does not play the dice?". The 7th International Conference on Technologies for Music Notation and Representation (TENOR), 9/10/11 May 2022, Marseille, France.
  13. Azaryahu L., Cohen S., Hershkovitz S., Borza O., Adi-Japha E. (2022). The 22nd Conference on Education Research. "Musimath and Creative Thinking". Levinsky College of Education, Israel.
  14. Cohen S., Ornoy E. (2021). The 20th Virtual Summer-Autumn Conference. "Tool for real-time automatic evaluation of a singing voice performance". The Israel Musicological Society, Israel.
  15. Cohen S. (2021). "Who pulls the strings" - the artist or the machine? Lecture series on "Relationships and Emotions", Faculty of Humanities, Bar Ilan University.
  16. Cohen S. (2021). Goethe-Institut Israel, Discourse on Contemporary Music International Festival of Contemporary Chamber Music.
  17. Cohen S. (2021). Two hours documented Interview and conversation with Kornél Fekete-Kovács, the artistic director of Modern Art Orchestra in Hungary, including a world Premier of my music compositions for the "Art Of Virus invitation-based online composing-initiative that includes: György Kurtág, Péter Eötvös, and 486 artists from 42 countries. The event was sponsored by the Embassy of Israel in Hungary and Jewish Art Days.
  18. Cohen S. (2021). The 21st Conference on Education Research. " Tool for real-time automatic evaluation of a singing voice performance". Levinsky College of Education, Israel.
  19. Cohen S. (2021). Guest Lecturer at the “Multimedia Composition Class” in Hamburg Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Germany.
  20. Cohen S. (2020). SIG 05 Conference 2020, Early Childhood Education: Growing Up in Dynamic and Changing Times. “Emergent Musical Creativity in People Suffering from Dysmusia”, Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
  21. Cohen S. (2020). The 20th Conference on Education Research. "Seven Cadenzas, for the string quartet, electronics and the radiophonic voice of composer Joseph Tal". Levinsky College of Education, Israel.
  22. Cohen S. (2020). Neuropedagogy at Achva Academic College. "Creative freedom in a space of uncertainty". Achva Academic College, Israel.
  23. Cohen S. (2019). VOX FEMINAE 2019.  "Voices from the Killing Jar" by Kate Soper: a study in contemporary composition. Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
  24. Cohen S. (2019). The 19th Conference on Education Research.  “Issues in musical temperaments as part of choral singing, planning, and building a working environment for student demonstrations and practical practice”. Levinsky College of Education, Israel.
  25. Cohen, S. (2018). "Analysis of Contemporary Violinist Recordings of the Nineteenth Century Repertoire: Trends and Influences", Conference of the Israel Musicology Association, Levinsky College of Education, Israel.
  26. Cohen, S. (2018). "Feelings, Emotions, and Thoughts in the Virtual, Real and Hybrid Era", ContComp Conference on Contemporary Composition, the Dr. Hecht Center for the Arts, University of Haifa.
  27. Cohen, S. (2018). The 18th Conference on Education Research. Study of orchestration and arrangement using music notation software. Levinsky College of Education, Israel.
  28. Cohen, S. (2018). The 13th Chais Conference for the Study of Innovation and Learning Technologies. Music Composition and real-time improvisation with mobile technology. The Open University of Israel.
  29. Cohen, S. (2017). Pushing the Boundaries of Musical Expression, an international conference on research in music and creativity. Compositional analysis and synthesis in search for artistic potential. Bar-Ilan University.
  30. Cohen, S. (2017). The 17th Conference on Education Research. Closed and open systems in composition, technology, and education. Levinsky College of Education, Israel.
  31. Cohen, S. (2016). The Asian Composers League (ACL) festival. Presentation of Israeli contemporary music. Vietnam.
  32. Cohen, S. (2015). ISCM world music days, festival. Presentation of Israeli contemporary music. Slovenia.
  33. Cohen, S. (2015). The Asian Composers League (ACL) festival. Presentation of Israeli contemporary music. The Philippines.
  34. Cohen, S. (2014). ISCM world music days, festival. Presentation of Israeli contemporary music. Poland.
  35. Cohen, S. (2015). The Asian Composers League (ACL) Festival. Presentation of Israeli contemporary music. Singapore.
  36. Cohen, S. (2013). ISCM world music days, festival. Presentation of Israeli contemporary music. Vienna, Austria.
  37. Cohen, S. (2012). The Asian Composers League (ACL) Festival. Presentation of Israeli contemporary music. Israel.
  38. Cohen, S. (2012). ISCM world music days, festival. Presentation of Israeli contemporary music. Belgium.
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